Pictures of the day: 15 April 2013

A Syrian boy holds an AK-47 assault rifle in the majority-Kurdish Sheikh Maqsud district of Aleppo. In northern Syria, the Kurdish population has largely observed a careful compromise with regime and rebel forces, fighting alongside neither, in return for security and semi-autonomy over majority Kurdish areas. In recent weeks there have been reports of Kurdish fighters joining Syrian rebels in certain areasPicture: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images